51 current and past state attorney generals, of both parties, are now calling for Congress to investigate the Don Siegelman conviction. Dan Abrams even highlighted some of the very questionable things that have occurred in this case: Hopefully Congress will hear the growing calls to take action on this.
That is the approach the fed seems to be taking towards the economy: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, warning Congress of a period of sluggish business growth, sent a fresh signal Wednesday that the central bank will again lower interest rates to steady the teetering economy. “The economic situation has become distinctly less favorable” since […]
That is what the RNC is telling Congress now. Previously they said they would try to recover the missing emails and now, well no they won’t. Marcy has more.
During Friday night’s Real Time, Republican Congressman Jack Kingston took to the airwaves to echo the right wing talking points of Obama being “not patriotic enough”. One of the memes that Kingston brought up was about Obama not wearing his lapel pin. Let’s take a look at people not wearing their lapel pin: (click for […]
This is amazing. Last night 60 Minutes ran the segment on Karl Rove’s involvement in the Don Siegelman conviction. If what has happened in Alabama doesn’t seem communistic enough for you, there is more. All last week the White House was pressuring CBS to not air the segment. Well it did air last night, but […]
The Malkinites of the world hate when the government tries to help people out, but that is exactly what they are doing: Prodded in part by some of the nation’s biggest banks, the Bush administration and Congress are considering costly new proposals for the government to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners whose mortgages are […]
During his State of the Union address, Bush was pushing Congress on a school voucher program. Today we got two different stories of Catholic schools discriminating against women (here and here). Considering how these schools always use separation of church and state to defend their actions, should our tax money go to them? Better yet […]
If Bush pushes with permanent bases in Iraq, despite Congress passing a bill saying no (which he did a signing statement on), Jim Webb thinks that legal action might have to be taken. Read the details at the Huffington Post.
Just now breaking on MSNBC and the AP. He was a great leader, and the only Holocaust survivor still serving in Congress. He will be greatly missed.